Tatting-shuttle.



C F. DILL.

TATTING SHUTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 14, 1914.

1, 173, 102. Patented Feb. 22, 1916.

CHAS FDIl-J IN VEN TOR.

WITNESSES $510747 I B Y ZQLJLO CHARLES F. DILL, OF GLENARM, -ILLINOIS.

TATTING-SHUTTLE.

Specificationof Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 22, 1916.

v Application filed September 14, 1914. Serial No. 861,732.

' lar resilient material. The side walls of the shuttle may then besprung slightly outward to' admit the reel and the bosses Glenarm, inthe county of Sangamon and thereon, the walls readily returning to theirState of Illinois, have invented new and normal position when the bosses8 have enuseful Improvements in Tatting-Shuttles, tered thecorresponding depressions in the of which the following isaspecification. reel. I My invention relates to improvements in a In theother sembodlment of my shuttle a tatting shuttles, and has for itsobject the projecting shaft on boss 7 extends out from provision of asimple and inexpensive deeach side of the reel, which boss is adaptedvice of that character upon which the thread to fit into a hole ordepression on the inner ma be easily and speedily wound, and walls ofthe shuttle, thus centering the reel which will be provided with meansfor pickin the shuttle. I. provide simple and novel ing out knots whichare known to fremeans for winding the thread on the thread quently occurin the process of making lace reel. Numeral 11 illustrates a cut-awayporby this method. a tion in each of the walls of the shuttle on Withthe. above and other objects in view, one of the edges thereof, thecut-away pormy invention consists of the new and useful tion extendingdown slightly lower than construction and arrangement of parts, theouter periphery of the disks 5 of the reel. 0 which will be hereinafterfully described, illustrated in the attached drawings, and pointed outspecifically in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein 5 the preferred embodiment ofmyinvention is illustrated, like reference characters refer to like orcorresponding parts, throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tatting shuttle constructed toembody the improvements of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of mytatting shuttle. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the thread reel. Fig. 4is another adaptation of the thread reel. Fig. 5 is a sectional view ofa shuttle constructed to embody my invention, and provided withthe'thread reel shown in Fig. 4.

eferring now more particularly to the drawings, numeral 1 designates themain body of the tatting shuttle, which comprises two side walls taperedfrom the center toward the pointed ends. The ends 2 and 2 of the shuttleare preferably solid, end 2' being provided witha pin 3 securely fixedtherein,

Numeral 4 designates the thread reel in genera, it comprising a pair ofparallel disks and a spool formed therebetween and integral therewith.Bosses such as- 8 are provided on the inner walls of the shuttle, whichbosses are adapted to enter depres- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. 1 )ILL, a citizen of the United States,residlng at ural movement of the thumb, while the shuttle is held in thesame hand, the thread entered in hole 10 of the spool 6 may be woundabout the spool, by revolving disks 5 with the thumb; To facilitate thismovement of the reel, the edges'of disks 5 may be milled. It will alsobe seen that since my thread reel is removable, the same may also befilled by Winding the thread thereon after withdrawing the reel from theshuttle, the side walls being sprung slightly by the operator to permitthe removal and replacing of the reel. The pin 3 provides a necessaryimplement to pick out knots as they occur in the thread during theprocess of making lace, the pin being securely fastened in one of thepoints of the shuttle by any suitable means.

From. the foregoing description, it will be readily seen that myinvention provides a simple and inexpensive tatting shuttle upon whichthe thread may be readily wound, and in which is incorporated a novelmeans for picking out knots in the thread.

While I have herein described and illus trated the preferred embodimentof my invention, I do not wish to be restricted thereto, except for suchlimitations as the claim may import, as it is obvious that the detailsof construction may be varied in many ways. I 810115 9 on the threadreel, whereby to center Having thus described my invention, what thereel and to keep it in place. I I claim is:T i

It will be understood that the shuttle of In a tatting shuttle,

a main body having side walls tapering together at each end my inventionmay be made of any material,

and united adjacent the ends, a thread reel butit is preferred tousecelluloid, or simi- It will be readily seen that with a verynatprevided with a centerin depression on the thereof whereby the thumbof an operator outer faces of said ree, said main body may revolve thereel in said body, substanhaving inwardly extending pivoting lugs ontially as described.

the inner faces of the side Walls positioned CHARLES F. DILL. 5 to enterthe centering depressions on the Witnesses:

reel, and each of said side walls provided LEO MA THEWS,

with a cut-away portionin one of the edges SARAH CHWARTZ.

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